Professor Mark Lurie and other experts speak to the NY Times, weighing in to explain how differences across populations and health systems create challenges for estimating the coronavirus risk: “Since most cases are mild, and testing has not been universal, almost by definition we are failing to detect and therefore count all of the cases."

Read the full article: How Deadly Is Coronavirus? What We Know and What We Don’t

Jennifer Pellowski, PhD, Assistant Professor if Behavioral and Social Sciences, and Omar Galárraga, PhD, Associate Professor of Health Services, Policy, and Practice, have been selected for an NIH training program at The Training Institute for Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health (TIDIRH).  The program is a semester long online training course that culminates in a 2 day in-person workshop in January in Bethesda. The  application process is very competitive and they are 2 of the 54 investigators who were chosen nationwide. 

Multiple Brown University International Health Institute Professors are coauthors on the recently published study contributing to the understanding of the impact of integrated care to the health care of HIV-positive patients with comorbid hypertension

Read Professor Galarraga's recent article, "Conditional economic incentives to improve HIV prevention and treatment in low-income and middle-income countries."

Researchers at the Brown University School of Public Health have just published the results of their modelling study modelling prevalence, morbidity, mortality and health system burden — that is how many people should be in treatment in order to meet national goals of disease coverage – of HIV and hypertension.

An article in the journal AIDS by Professor Caroline Kuo and doctoral student Ashleigh LoVette concludes that resilience-focused interventions hold promise for improving the behavioral health of adolescents living in high HIV prevalence settings.

While most teens can define consent as saying ‘yes,’ their understanding of how consent translates into real life experiences varies.

Ashleigh LoVette, a PhD candidate with the Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences at the Brown University School of Public Health, has been awarded the 2018 Mariam K. Chamberlain Dissertation Award by the International Center for Research on Women.

Faculty member Mark Lurie was recently quoted in The Washington Post. 

Stephen McGarvey, Professor of Epidemiology, received $3,073,527 for "Impact of the obesity-risk CREBRF p.Arg457Gln variant on energy expenditure, intake, and substrate utilization in Samoans" from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.